Word: batista
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...think a truly enlightened policy on the part of the United States should involve a clear distinction between the two anti-Castroisms," Boersner explained. "If the United States would dissociate itself in word and deed from the people like Batista and the reactionary economic interests, making clear it does not wish to re-establish in Cuba the system that prevailed before the 1959 revolution, I believe the vast majority of Americans would support your country in sanctions toward Cuba...
While deploring the "ambiguous attitude" of the U.S. government toward the new Cuban government after the fall of Batista, Boersner noted that Latin Americans were unsatisfied with the totalitarian system Castro offered...
Hounded out of Cuba in 1958 by Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Bosch did not return when Dictator Castro took power. "I don't say I knew he was a Communist." says Bosch. "But I felt he was not a democrat. I was afraid of what might happen...
...State Department looked askance when Castro replaced the defunct Batista bureaucracy with a Communist machine, why does it not draw some hope from this reversal...
...organized in 1932 to oppose the Machado regime, and reformed in 1952 to aid in the overthrow of Batista. The hotbed of Directorate activity was the University of Havana, and students there engaged in terrorism and acts of sabotage. Many students, however, left the University to join the 26th of July Movement operating in the hills of Oriente Province...